Bullying. A transaction between two parties where a larger subject in a
snake embroidered jean or leather jacket solicits money from a smaller, weaker
subject against his or her will. Or at least that was how it worked in the
1980s when David Hasselhoff and his Firebird still ruled the streets. But as
the tired old trend of interpersonal interaction rapidly declined in favor of
digital communication, it seemed we couldn't drop the nasty trend of well
being nasty to each other. In fact, the proliferation of harassment via
information technology networks such as hate-based websites, email slander
campaigns, and threatening phone calls had become frequent enough by 2004 that
it led to a term to describe the experience of repeated and targeted
digital abuse, cyber bullying. And as it
turned out, this was just in the nick of time for the next great evolution of
bullying, social networking. Social media changed the bullying landscape by
giving people unprecedented access to the personal lives of well everybody.
74% of teenagers according to the Pew Research Center. And once the networking
services became ubiquitous with cell phones, it meant that bullies could
access their victims at any time and place from school to work to even home.
In fact, approximately one in three teenagers report having experienced some
form of cyber bullying. This is also according to Pew, including everything
from having private messages shared without permission, false rumors spread,
and even physical threats. So then a
common reaction from many who first encounter cyber harassment is to say,
well, okay, I'll just unplug everything.
This is easy. However, the emotional distress and stigma from bullying can
follow a person far beyond their pluggedin experience with victims
exhibiting higher incident rates of psychological problems, depression, and
substance abuse issues. According to research by the cyber bullying research
center and because cyber bullying disproportionately affects teenagers and
this is according to statistics Netherlands there has been concern from
organizations such as the US department of health and human services about the
effects of this type of bullying on personal development and the possibility
that it could cause emotional and behavioral issues later on in life.
Thankfully, social media providers seem to agree that there's a problem, and
things like page visibility only upon author approval and blocking for
individual users have become near universal. Some services such as YouTube
take it a step further, letting users define what type of unwanted material
they're reporting, from unsolicited to explicit or even violent and harassing
speech. Or there's Twitch, which allows broadcasters to temporarily time out
people instead of banning them outright, giving a chance for the perpetrator's
behavior to be modified via social reinforcement. Which is not to say at
all that these features are foolproof, as it is not uncommon for miscreants to
gain them by setting up dummy accounts or even abuse them by reporting people
who have done nothing wrong. And efforts to legislate against cyber bullying
haven't gone swimmingly either, with reports of online bullying continuing to
rise, according to the Boston-based Education Development Center. On the
bright side, campaigns like stomp out bullying in the US and delete cyber
bullying in the EU have led to a growing awareness and a drive for people to be
proactive about this issue. Because
while this hasn't been a very funny episode of Techquicki, it's kind of a
serious issue. And if you or anyone that you know has experienced anything more
than, you know, the mildly irritating levels of online abuse that we all just
seem to kind of accept to the point where you feel like it's really having
an impact on you, it's important to reach out to nearby support because no
one deserves that kind of mistreatment. And last but not least, take care not to
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